Live At The Bowl '68 [CD]

This Historic Performance Has Been Restored From Original Camera Negatives And Remixed AndMastered Using Original Multi-Track Tapes To Create The Definitive Version

The Doors supplied plenty of post-Independence Day fireworks on July 5, 1968 when the legendaryquartet played the Hollywood Bowl, a concert that is considered to be the band’s finest on film. Forthe first time, the film from the historic performance has been painstakingly restored using theoriginal camera negatives and the audio has been remixed and mastered from original multi-tracksby the group’s engineer Bruce Botnick. This new restoration offers a stunning visual upgrade fromearlier versions and will give fans the closest experience to being there live along side Jim Morrison,John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, who opined, “You can hear it as if you were atthe Hollywood Bowl, on stage with us.”

LIVE AT THE BOWL ’68 includes three previously unreleased tracks from the performance.Technical issues with the recording of “Hello, I Love You,” “The WASP (Texas Radio And The BigBeat),” and “Spanish Caravan” prevented them from being released in the past. Now, throughmeticulous restoration of the audio, all three will be included, marking the first time the concert has been available in its entirety.

The DVD, Blu-Ray and digital video each feature a 16x9 high-definition digital transfer with both astereo and 5.1 audio soundtrack as well as over an hour of bonus material. Included in theadditional content are “Echoes From The Bowl,” The Doors’ route to the Hollywood Bowl; “You HadTo Be There,” memories of The Doors’ performance at the Bowl; “Reworking The Doors,” an in-depth look at how the film was restored; and three bonus performances: “Wild Child” fromTheSmothers Brothers Showin 1968, “Light My Fire” fromThe Jonathan Winters Showin December1967 and a version of Van Morrison’s “Gloria” with specially created visuals.

“The Doors’ live performances were a shamanistic journey into dark rock and roll psychedelictheater – a swirling mixture of rock ‘n’ roll heat, poetry, danger, drama and unbridled musicalvirtuosity,” says Jeff Jampol, Doors manager and producer of the film. “Captured at the height ofThe Doors magical powers, in one of the world’s greatest venues, this brand new restoration, editand mix, corny as it may sound, made me fall in love a hundred times, all over again.”